Tiki Modern
by Sven A Kirsten
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Author: Sven A KirstenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Unknown); French (Unknown); German (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-12
ISBN: 3822847178
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Taschen
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Book Review: TIKI Lives Again
Summary: 5 Stars
TIKI Modern is the best collection of TIKI related information yet to be published. If you are looking for a good coffee table book with entertaining reading and lots of photos about a time when American's were taking their minds off the Cold War, you will not be disappointed.
Summary of Tiki Modern
TASCHEN`s Book of Tiki provided the blueprint for the re-appreciation and revival of Tiki style. Almost completely wiped from the consciousness of Americans until recently, Sven Kirsten's tome put Tiki on the map as a unique pop culture phenomenon. Never before had Tiki culture's visual power and pervasiveness been revealed with such detail and insight. Not only did the book inspire the erecting of many new Tiki bars from New York to London to Berlin to Prague to Waikiki, but also motivated a myriad of Tiki artisans to pick up the chisel and carry on the forgotten tradition, while spurring many others to create their own home hideaways, making "Tiki" a household name again.This new follow-up book, which brings together the two recent retro trends of mid-century modernism and Tiki style, is bound to lift the Tiki craze to a new level. With his usual mixture of ironic detachment and genuine enthusiasm for the subject, Kirsten shows us how primitivism and modernism were two sides of the same coin in the 1950s and 60s. Decor deities and ersatz ancestors outrageously merged in the modern brutalist furniture from the house of Witco, a company that outfitted Elvis Presley's Jungle Room and Hugh Hefner's Chicago Playboy pool. This was design porn at its best. cover: ? Estate of Stanley Stubenberg
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